This section of our Web site includes resources to assist RIDE's adult education programs in implementing an outcome-based approach to management. The materials have been provided courtesy of our technical assistance partner, The Rensselaerville Institute. The materials include strategies and best practices for leaders, energizing your organization, and how strategic planning should guide outcome achievements. Additional resources will be added over time that continue to focus on best practices and topics of interest.

Feel free to request additional resources in other areas where you can specify a need for more information and insight. E-mail agardner@rinstitute.org

Outcomes & Strategic planning
	Strategy and Planning - A two-part article on how to insure that your plan contains true strategy and ways to implement it.
	Strategic Planning...the Outcome Approach, Part I
	Strategic Planning...the Outcome Approach, Part II
	2006 Result Card Children's Village - An example  of how  one non-profit funded in a 20 page narrative of what it did and one short page on what it achieved.
	Character in Organizations - Many organizations have characteristics and artifacts (such as mission statements) what you really want is character.
	Person to Person Result Description  - How to include results in every staff's job description.
	Energy In Organization - A look at a critical element of personal & organizational life rarely considered but hugely consequential to success. Includes an "energy" audit for your use.
	Musings for May

outcomes in the workplace
	Energy in Organizations article - An article on how to define and increase the amount of positive energy available to persons in your organization.
	Sparkplug Leaders for Projects and Organizations - An article on the characteristics of effective leaders of units, programs, or just of themselves
	Describing Work The Job vs. the Result - An article on how and why to consider replacing job descriptions with result descriptions.
	Outcome-Based Hiring - How to select new staff-which is even more the key to high achievement than is professional development once they join you.
	Collaboration vs. The 3c's - An article on the difference between coordinating and cooperating with other groups (whether within or outside of your organization and true collaboration.
	Informing vs. Persuading - An article with the premise that most groups providing education are not in the business of informing people.  They are in the business of persuading them to do something differently!
	Thoughts on Strategic Planning - A definition of what is "strategic" and options to the plan as the best vehicle to convey it.